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• VCGGK136

  Human alteration of biomes to produce food, industrial materials and fibres, and the environmental effects of these alterations

  Elaborations

  • identifying the biomes in Australia and overseas that produce some of the foods and plant material people consume
  • investigating ways that the production of food and fibre has altered some biomes through, for example, vegetation clearance, introduction of exotic species, drainage, terracing and irrigation
  • using the concept of a system to identify the differences between natural and agricultural ecosystems in flows of nutrients and water, and in biodiversity

  VCGGK136 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Biomes and food security

• VCHHC071

  Describe the significance of Australian celebrations, symbols and emblems

  Elaborations

  • generating questions about the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the nature of contact in early Australia
  • posing questions about explorers, for example, 'Who were they? 'Where were they from?' 'Where did they go?' 'What did they do?'
  • identifying the meaning of celebrations from different perspectives, for example, Australia Day for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples compared with other cultural groups

  VCHHC071 | The Humanities | History | Levels 3 and 4 | Historical Concepts and Skills | Historical significance

• VCHHK073

  A significant example of change and a significant example of continuity over time in the local community, region or state/territory

  Elaborations

  • investigating changes and continuity in relation to transport, work, education, natural and built environments, entertainment and daily life
  • investigating a development in the local community from the time of European settlement to the present day, for example, through photographs, newspapers, oral histories, diaries and letters
  • comparing key similarities and differences in photographs from both the past and present of a specific location to identify change or continuity

  VCHHK073 | The Humanities | History | Levels 3 and 4 | Historical Knowledge | Community, remembrance and celebrations

• VCHHK133

  Key social, cultural, economic, and political features of one society at the start of the period

  Elaborations

  • Australia
    • examining the different contexts of the colonies of Australia and explain their influences
    • investigating the founding of Melbourne and the features of Port Phillip District/Victoria
    • analysing and evaluating the effects of Gold on Victoria using a graphic organiser
  • Asia
    • investigating ONE Asian society such as China, Japan, India, Dutch East Indies at the start of the period
    • identifying the territorial extent of Qing China, the role and influence of the Emperor, and the nature of literature, art and architecture at the time
    • describing the impacts of the Industrial revolution on Japan’s isolation and changing economy

  VCHHK133 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Knowledge | The making of the modern world | Australia and Asia

• Geography: Levels 3 and 4 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 4, students identify and describe spatial characteristics, and the characteristics of places and environments at a range of scales. They identify and explain interconnections and identify and describe locations, including Australia’s neighbouring countries and Africa and South America.

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4

• History: Foundation to Level 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students explain aspects of daily life to identify how some aspects have changed over time, while others have remained the same. They describe personal and family life, a person, a site, or an event of significance in the local community.

  Students use sources (physical, visual...

  Level description | The Humanities | History | Foundation to Level 2

• VCGGC099

  Explain processes that influence the characteristics of places

  Elaborations

  • explaining the physical causes and the temporal and spatial patterns of an atmospheric or hydrological hazard through a study of either droughts, storms, tropical cyclones or floods
  • exploring the geomorphology of the land and how this affects the liveability of a place
  • contrasting the effects of geomorphic processes that lower the land surface (weathering and erosion) and those that raise the land surface (transportation and deposition)
  • discussing urbanisation as a shift in where, how and why people live where they do

  VCGGC099 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGK151

  Reasons and consequences for spatial variations in human wellbeing on a regional scale within India or another country of the Asia region; and on a local scale in Australia

  Elaborations

  • examining spatial data on human wellbeing in India to identify the regions with different levels of wellbeing, identifying patterns and debating explanations of the differences
  • examining how a person’s wellbeing is influenced by where they live, with reference to at least two different scales in a country of the Asia region
  • researching spatial differences in the wellbeing of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population across Australia, and the extent to which these differences depend on how wellbeing is measured
  • explaining the spatial pattern of human wellbeing in Australia at a local scale, such as within a city or region, and its causes

  VCGGK151 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Knowledge | Geographies of human wellbeing

• VCHHK064

  The significance today of an historical site of cultural or spiritual importance

  Elaborations

  • discussing why a particular site has heritage significance/cultural value for present generations, for example, it provides a record of a significant historical event, has aesthetic value, reflects the community’s identity
  • identifying, in consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and visiting (where appropriate) local sites, places and landscapes of significance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, for example, engraving sites, rock paintings, natural sites or features such as the Birragai rock shelter, creeks or mountains
  • identifying and designing a local historical tour of a site, for example, one related to a particular cultural group

  VCHHK064 | The Humanities | History | Foundation to Level 2 | Historical Knowledge | Community histories

• VCHHC127

  Analyse the long term causes, short term triggers and the intended and unintended effects of significant events and developments

  Elaborations

  • using sources of evidence (perspectives and interpretations) identify causes and effects of the civil rights movement
  • using chronologies to observe and identify long term causes, short term triggers, turning points, short and long term effects of World War I and World War II
  • organising causes and effects of European settlement into a concept map
  • differentiating between intended and unintended effects.
  • using graphic organisers such as concept maps, causal spider webs, fishbone or ripple effect charts
  • analysing the multiplicity of causes and effects that may have a varying of influence and rank according to their significance and justify ranking
  • constructing an explanation using sources of evidence to support the analysis of a significant individual, event and/or cultural achievement

  VCHHC127 | The Humanities | History | Levels 9 and 10 | Historical Concepts and Skills | Cause and effect

• VCGGK080

  The many Countries/Places of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia, and the custodial responsibility they have for Country/Place, and how this influences views about sustainability

  Elaborations

  • investigating how the Australian continent was (and still is) divided into many Aboriginal Countries and Torres Strait Islander Places, drawing on languages maps, geographical features and other sources such as Traditional Owners
  • compare the characteristics of two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Countries/Places. For example, where students live and one elsewhere in Australia
  • exploring how oral traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were used to describe Country/Place
  • recognising that the distribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples before colonisation was concentrated in more productive areas such as in the coastal and riverine areas of Australia and investigating how Aboriginal people were able to trade across the continent
  • investigating how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ ways of living were adapted to the resources of their Country/Place. For example, the alpine country of the Ngarigo People, the rainforests, beaches and dunes of the KuKu Yalanji People, the desert country of the Arrernte People, the savannah country of the Jawoyn People, the riverine plains of the Wiradjuri People, and the local Country/Place

  VCGGK080 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4 | Geographical Knowledge | Diversity and significance of places and environments

• VCGGK096

  Environmental and human influences on the location and characteristics of places and the management of spaces within them

  Elaborations

  • comparing how people have responded to climatic conditions in similar and different places and factors that may have influenced this such as culture and technology
  • investigating the influence of landforms on the development of settlements that are involved in food and fibre production. For example, river valleys such as the Murray-Darling, Yellow (Huang He), Yangtze, Amazon, Mekong or Ganges
  • explaining why most Australians live close to the coast rather than in inland Australia
  • examining how the use of the space within their local place is organised through zoning
  • investigating a current local planning issue, such as the redevelopment of a site, preservation of open space or subdivision of farming land, exploring why people have different views on the issue, and developing a class response to it

  VCGGK096 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 5 and 6 | Geographical Knowledge | Factors that shape places and influence interconnections

• Geography: Levels 7 and 8 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 8, students explain processes that influence the characteristics of places. They identify, analyse and explain interconnections and spatial characteristics and identity and explain their implications.

  They compare strategies for a geographical challenge, taking into account...

  Level description | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 7 and 8

• The Humanities | Civics and Citizenship: Scope and Sequence

  The curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning. The curriculum is being presented in a scope and sequence chart to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning teaching and learning programs to meet the diverse needs...

  Overview material | Civics and Citizenship

• The Humanities | Economics and Business: Scope and Sequence

  The curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning. The curriculum is being presented in a scope and sequence chart to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning teaching and learning programs to meet the diverse needs...

  Overview material | Economics and Business

• The Humanities | Geography: Scope and Sequence

  The curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning. The curriculum is being presented in a scope and sequence chart to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning teaching and learning programs to meet the diverse...

  Overview material | Geography

• The Humanities | History: Scope and Sequence

  The curriculum sets out what students are expected to learn and is designed as a continuum of learning. The curriculum is being presented in a scope and sequence chart to support teachers to easily see the progression and assist in planning teaching and learning programs to meet the diverse needs...

  Overview material | History

• VCGGC072

  Identify and describe locations and spatial distributions and patterns

  Elaborations

  • using geographical tools, such as a globe, wall map or electronic atlas, to locate the states and territories, major cities and regional centres in their own state, and then naming them
  • identifying the pattern of population distribution across Australia
  • identifying and locating examples of the main climatic types in Australia and the world, for example, equatorial, tropical, arid, semi-arid, temperate and Mediterranean

  VCGGC072 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGC127

  Predict changes in the characteristics of places over time and identify the possible implications of change for the future

  Elaborations

  • researching the potential of agricultural production in northern Australia
  • discussing the effects of people's cultural and leisure choices on towns and cities or heritage areas. For example, predicting how changing choices may affect these and other places in the future
  • evaluating the effects of international demand for food products on biodiversity throughout the world, in the places of their production
  • identifying trends in human wellbeing in countries over time

  VCGGC127 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 9 and 10 | Geographical Concepts and Skills | Place, space and interconnection

• VCGGK083

  Similarities and differences in individuals’ and groups’ feelings and perceptions about places, and how they influence views about the protection of these places

  Elaborations

  • reading and viewing poems, songs, paintings and stories concerning people’s feelings about places as part of an exploration of the factors that influence views on the protection of places
  • discussing why it is important to protect places that have special significance for people. For example, a wetland, a site sacred to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , a national park or a World Heritage site
  • designing actions that people could take to protect and improve places in the local area that people perceive as important and discussing the likely reactions of different groups of people to these ideas

  VCGGK083 | The Humanities | Geography | Levels 3 and 4 | Geographical Knowledge | Diversity and significance of places and environments